Combination clothesline reel and clothespin carrier



w..cHolNsK| Filed sept. 2e, 192e COMBINATION CLOIAHESLINE REEL AND CLOTHESPIN CARRIER June 25, 1929.

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Patented June 25, 1929.

UNITED STATES WALTER CHOINSKI, F MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

COMBINATION CLOTHESLINE REEL AND CLOTHESPIN CARRIERf Application filed September 26, 1928. Serial No.` 308,544.

This invention relates to a combination clothes line reel and clothes pin carrier.

Objects of this invention are to provide a novel iform of clothes line reel and clothes pin carrier which are so combined that the device may be hung upon a clothes line after the line has been stretched and the pins removed from the bag with the utmost ease. Subsequently, the pins may be replaced within the bag and the reel detached temporarily from the bag and the line wound thereon. The reel is then locked to the frame and the bag is repositioned upon the reel and the entire device is hung up on a suitable hook by means of the handle for the reel carrying trame.

Further objects are to provide a very simple, practical, and easily produced and easily operated device.

An embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 is a rear view of the device showing it in place upon a clothes line;

Figure 2 is a sectional view on the line 2-2 oli' Figure 1.

Referring to the drawings, it will be seen that the device comprises a U-shaped frame 1 which may be formed of relatively heavy wire, if desired, and which is provided with a pair of hook-like upper portions 2 between which a handle 3 is carried. These hook-like portions may be hooked over a clothes line 4 after the line has been stretched.

Within the Ueshaped outer frame, a reel, indicated by the reference character 5, is provided and is equipped with transverse bars G and 7 and with corner prongs 8 between which the line is adapted to be wound when the device is used as a reel for storing the line.

One ol? the bars 7, for instance, is provided with a notch 9, having a restricted entrance within which the knot on the clothes line may be positioned to start the line upon the reel. The reel is operated by means of a crank 1() provided with a manipulating handle 11. In order to hold the reel against motion temporarily, a ring 12 is carried by one of the arms olf' the frame 1 and is adapted to be slipped over one of the corner prongs 8 of the reel.

The reel cooperates with a pin carrying bag 13 which is provided with a pocket 14 on one side and with a transverse flap 15 on the other side forming an upper transverse relatively small pocket. This upper transverse pocket is adapted to receive the uppermost prongs of thereel and to thus hold the clothes pin bag in its suspended posit-ion from the reel, as shown in the drawings.

The bag is also provided with a tape han dle or loop 16 through which the arm of the user may be inserted when desired.

Q In using the device, it is detached from the h ne, and the bag, after receiving the clothes pins, 1s carried upon the arm of the operator while the line is Wound upon the reel after `detaching the ring 12. Thereafter, the link is againslipped into locking position and the bag is hung upon the uppermost prongs o'l5 the reel and supported therefrom. The entire device may then be hung upon a suitable hook, thus retaining the line and the clothes pin in an easily -accessible position so that they may be freely carried into the yard as required.

It will be seen that a novel form of device has been provided which is extremely simple, highly serviceable, and is easy to operate.

The handle 3 materially aids in the ease of winding the line upon the reel as the U- shaped outer frame may be sup-ported from the handle while winding takes place.

Further, when the device is hung upon al line the pins in the clothes pin bag are freely accessible and the entire device may be sli-d along the line to a position adjacent the operator, as required. Also, after the lirst portion or' line is stretched, the device can be hung thereon and the remainder of the line unwound, thus eliminating the necessity of carrying the reel around.

Although the invention has been described in considerable detail, suoli description is intended as illustrative rather than limiting as the invention may be variously embodied and as the scope ol such invention is to be determined by the claims.

I claim:

1. A clothes line reel comprising a U shaped outer frame having hook-like upper portions provided with an intermediate supporting handle, a flat reel structurecarried within said trame, a crank for operating said reel, projecting prongs on the ends of said reel and means engageable with one of said prongs and said frame for locking one pair of prongs upwardly with reference to said supporting frame.

2. A clothes line reel comprising a U- shaped outer frame having its midway portion bent inwardly of the Ushaped frame to form a transverse handle support and hooklike portions between the inwardly bent part and the Sides 'of the'frame adapted to engage over a clothes line, :i lia-t reel struotureeiuried within the frame end inCl-uding transverse.

bars, prongs projecting from the reel at each end of the bers;eerenkV for loperating said reel, and a ring slidably mounted upon one of the side portions of the frame and adapted 10 to engage one of the uppermost prongs for retaining said reel against movement relative the frame and one of the transverse bars having :L notch formed within the restricted entrance.

. In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hund at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of fisconsin.

WALTER CHOINSKT. 

